HeyJaredGrowing Middle Minds
Growing Middle Minds is a record of instructional decisions designed to stretch adolescent thinking. I document the slow, deliberate work of teaching middle school—where cognitive growth, visible thinking, and thoughtful design intersect.
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Graphic Novels, Close Reading and Making Thinking Visible. (opens the original)
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Alternative Assessments does not mean losing rigor. (opens the original)
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When people hear “alternative assessment,” they sometimes picture an easier assignment: make a poster, record a video, create something colorful instead of writing an essay.That is not what I mean. In our dystopian literature unit, students had choices in how they showed their learning. Some of their choices include create a visual essay, design a collage, develop a graphic narrative, produce an op-ed, blackout poetry or a podcast. The final products looked very different, but the expectations a
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